“American Splendor” represents a bold deconstruction of the fatigued biopic form. Not content to present the Cleveland-based Pekar’s life as anything resembling a straightforward narrative, Berman and ...

“American Splendor,” which already made a big splash at Sundance earlier this year, winning the grand jury prize, has taken Cannes by storm. This brilliant mélange of documentary and fiction film, in ...

Comic book writer Harvey Pekar, creator of the acclaimed autobiographical series American Splendor, died early yesterday morning aged 70. The Cleveland resident's local paper reported that his wife ...

At the beginning of American Splendor, a v.o. narration by the real Harvey Pekar describes the man portraying him in the film. “This guy here, he’s our man, all grown up and going nowhere,” says Pekar ...

American Splendor: Comedy-drama. Starring Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner. Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. (R. 101 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.

For directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, both documentary filmmakers, the critical success of American Splendor is beyond their conception of a Best Case Scenario. They didn't plan for ...

I'm proud to announce that fellow cartoonist Dean Haspiel and myself have launched a new weekly podcast: Scene by Scene with Josh and Dean. Debuting today, Scene by Scene focuses on the award-winning ...

When Pekar, inspired by Crumb's work, wrote his nascent strip in 1972, Crumb illustrated it. Crumb also contributed to Pekar's first full-fledged books, which Pekar started publishing annually in 1976 ...

It takes a special sort of grumpiness to address your wife and adopted infant daughter as "man", generally in the course of some shrill and ill-tempered complaint. That's the sort of guy you're ...

The semi-legendary cult comic-book writer Harvey Pekar is more generous and open than you’d expect a crank to be. And Pekar is a crank. His “American Splendor” comics — which he has been writing since ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. I don’t quite know what I expected when I settled in to watch this first quasi-narrative film from husband-wife documentary team ...